If you were to bottle up the last few years of California garage rock into a single soda can and pop the lid, that crisp and gratifying release might sound something like Thee Oh Sees, Despite being on supposed “hiatus” status…
Thee Oh Sees are back after all with an unexpected new LP, Drop. Set to release on Record Store Day 2014, the album is an energetic dive straight back into the electric pool of psychedelic rock n’ roll that Thee Oh Sees are known for.
Just by drifting past Ty Segall, it was striking how loud it was. His albums usually consist of a sort of lofi garage rock, but the live show was straight up punk. Segall seemed very concerned with the health of his crowd…
Ty Segall was at Coachella last weekend, where he ran through an hour-long set that included some new songs, cuts from his Ty Segall Band project, and a cover of Motörhead’s “Motörhead”.
Ty Segall was at Coachella last weekend, where he ran through an hour-long set that included some new songs, cuts from his Ty Segall Band project, and a cover of Motörhead’s “Motörhead”.
As if to illustrate the point, late in his gloriously loud and raucous set, Segall covered “Mötörhead” by Mötörhead, one of a handful of truly heavy bands at the fest.
doubly significant for Thee Oh Sees: Not only do the garage-rock kings have a new album coming out (Drop, due April 19), but the summer gig will also mark the band’s first Bay Area performance since frontman John Dwyer relocated…
Mac DeMarco takes #1 spot on CMJ’s charts
Rumors of Thee Oh Sees’ hiatus have been greatly exaggerated: the California psych mainstays will release their new album Drop on April 19 (Record Store Day), via frontman John Dwyer’s Castle Face label.
Watching Ty Segall at the Outdoor Theatre to kick off my Saturday drove home a 2014 Coachella reality: the relative lack of noisy, guitar-driven bands.
…culminating in the Merge 25 festival in Carrboro, NC from July 23 – 26. They’ve just released the full line-up which now includes appearances from…Amor de Días, Saint Rich, The Music Tapes, Vertical Scratchers, Hospitality, and Mikal Cronin
…I heard Mac DeMarco’s brand-new album “Salad Days” for the first time and thought: Yes. I get this. The laid-back grooviness, the moments of introspection undermined by cheeky apathy and hints of l’enfant terrible.
What hiatus? Thee Oh Sees are getting ready to release a new album called Drop on April 19 (Record Store Day) via frontman John Dwyer’s label Castle Face. Now, it looks like they’ve planned a few shows.
Bay Area garage-rock torchbearers Thee Oh Sees announced a hiatus late last year, but not before they recorded Drop, a psychedelic Lemonhead of a new album that’ll be out later this month.
With a tongue-twisting band name, these Melburnian kids have been churning out tunes with no sign of halting.
Mac DeMarco took the stage at the Empty Bottle in Chicago’s Ukrainian Village Wednesday night, just one short day after the release of his highly anticipated album “Salad Days.”
Ezra Furman is an indie songwriter and native Chicagoan. He has a very unique style of songwriting, and the sound is passionate garage punk pop with R&B sensibilities.
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard are a band doing it right in the 2010s, possessing tangible savvy and consistently shifting stylistic focus. Emerging from their formative stint as a collective they consolidated their lineup of seven…
DeMarco’s trademark laid-back style, however, remains a high point of Salad Days. His music has a groovy, 70s-era vibe that shines through on this album
The critics might have branded his music “slacker-pop” but there’s no knocking Mac DeMarco’s work ethic: latest LP Salad Days was written and recorded in little more than a month.
Thee Oh Sees are set to release a new album later this month despite recently announcing plans to take an extended break. Now, you can hear the title-track from said release.
Criticized for his immature antics by some, revered for his refusal to behave like an “adult” by others, Mac DeMarco is the closest thing we urban twenty-somethings have to a modern day Peter Pan.
…DeMarco’s new album is also ostensibly one where the chill bro gets all mature and stuff, and here his inner conflicts return with a suitably nonchalant vengeance. The title track undercuts its narrator’s worries about aging…
It’s these dissonant bits that elevate DeMarco’s easily digestible pop, the reason his single “Passing Out Pieces” will be one of the most memorable moments in indie rock this year.
While everything Mac DeMarco played was recognizable, nothing sounded as simple or pure as the album versions. He played most of the songs faster and they sounded weirder..
“Salad Days” is the second full-length album from Mac DeMarco, and it sounds like the 23-year-old is grappling with growing up. The image of DeMarco is almost at odds with his music.
The two songs we’ve heard from Thee Oh Sees’ forthcoming Drop spanned a vast aesthetic distance; “Penetrating Eye” was a gnarly unhinged riff monster, while “The Lens” was a subdued and pretty psych ballad.
“The Lens” is the latest video from Thee Oh Sees. The song is the last track on their new LP, Drop, which is out April 19. Fun fact: The album was recorded in a banana-ripening warehouse. Check out the clip for “The Lens” below.
And if these are indeed his so-called Salad Days, then having produced something that is so completely seductive in its own insouciant, laid-back way, long may they continue.
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard’s freakadelic opus is a tunnelling cosmic jam that pushes out past the 15-minute mark, and it has certainly become the Surf Coast group’s emphatic trump card.
